Transportation and display package for package-sterilized articles.



L'H. & A. w. WAY.

AY PACKAGE FOR PACKAGE STERILIZED ARTICLES. APPLICATION FILED APR. 18. I9l4.

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Patented July 4, 1916.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HOWARD WAY AND ALDEN WARREN WAY, OF ,ST. DAVIDS, PENNSYLVANIA; SAID JOHN HOWARD WAY ASSIGNOB TO SAID ALBEN WARREN WAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4, 1916.

Application filed April 18,1914. Serial No. 832,963.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, J OHN HOWARD WAY and ALBEN WARREN WAY, both of St. Davids, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transportation and Display Packages for Package-sterilized Articles, whereof the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In our applications filed respectively on April 4th, 1914, Serial No. 829,497, and on April 18, 1914, Serial No. 832,962 we have described processes adapted for the sterilization of articles intended for human wear, after such articles havebeen completely inclosed in an ultimate package suitable for commercial handling.

Our present invention is addressed to the production of a package which lends itself.

to either of the methods of treatment set forth in said applications, and which, when finally sterilized, is adapted to protect the article from the admission of germs and to be handled under the conditions characteristic of commercial shipment, while it permits to a certain extent display of the inclosed article, the display, moreover, being of such character as to emphasize the fact of protection against the admission of disease germs.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I, represents a perspective view of one form of package suitable for use with hosiery, mufilers, small articles of underwear and the like, but it will be understood thatwe do not limit ourselves, either to the size of the package or the nature of the article contained therein. Fig. II, is a transverse section thereof on the line H, H, of Fig. I.

Referring to the type, shown in Figbl, 1, represents a rectangular shallow x, preferably of glazed paste-board, which is provided with a removable covering element, in this instance a lid 2, having inclosing sides 3, adapted to fit over the box proper. V

The top opening of the box is completely covered by a layer 4, of thin close-textured and partly translucent paper, preferably of the character commercially known as glazed parchment, or pecoy tissue, which we have found to be penetrable by the sterilizing agent, which we employ, but which, however, is substantially impervious to the subsequent passage of germs into the interior of the package, and is translucent to such an extent as to permit a display of the packaged article 5. This paper covermg 4, is preferably so disposed as to simply envelop the top and sides of the box as indicated in Fig. II, but in any event it is tightly secured and sealed to the box, at the sides by pasting so as to form an air tight joint and make a completely sealed package. This is essential to our invention since the receipt of the package thus sealed with the evidencethus supplied of its not having been tampered with, is the guarantee to the purchaser that-the package has not been opened, since it was originally steri- 'lized.

It will be noted that the package has the structural characteristics of a tight receptacle adapted to' stand commercial'handling, though made of light material, such as paste-board; that its opening is provided with a covering layer completely sealed to the body of the receptacle, said covering layer having the following qualities; sufficient translucency to permit display of the --packaged article; penetrability by' a sterilizing reagent in the form of gas or vapor; and substantial imperviousness to the passage of disease germs; and finally that said layer is protected, during shipment and handling previous to display, by means of a substantially rigid layer of material.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

As a transportation and display package for package-sterilized articles, a substantially rigid receptacle, having raised sides, in combination with a layer of paper completely-covering the top of the receptacle having the following qualities, viz-translucency, permeability by sterilizing reagents in the form of vapor, and imperviousness to the passage of disease germs, said transsigned our names at Philadelphia, Pennlucent layer being sealed to each side of sylvania, thissixteenth day of April, 1914.10 said receptacle so as to form a complete air JOHN HOWARD W AY tight joint between the two and a. covering 5 element of relatively rigid liiaterial adapted ALBEN WARREN to protect said translucent layer under the Witnesses: conditions of transportation and handling. JAMES H. BELL,

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto E. L. FULLERTON. 

